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The word 'broom'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
broomOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of broom in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
cNaughtan's The Yellow On The Broom, aboot the traivellin folk gi on page 37

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
es wad be brichtened by yalla broom at their sides an violets at
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ses when the yellow’s on the broom'. Adam McNaughtan #scotslangu (2020) twitter link

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
hat an’ she rides an aul’ broom
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ast, we would like to let the broom sweep clean before you make s
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
antin an ravin, wavin aboot a broom haunel.
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Ah grabbed a broom, on page 25

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The broom blaws rarely on the hill, on page 36

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Sang, Hamlet an Yellow on the Broom. Rod Paterson o Jock Tamson's on page 77

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
“Oh the broom, the bonnie, bonnie broom, th(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
ationScot readin 'Room on the Broom' in Scots tae hunners o schui (2019) twitter link
rin a screenin o 'Room on the Broom' and a readin o the story in (2019) twitter link
Room on the Broom in Scots, read by @Shane_Stra (2019) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
wisna a spark o yellae on the broom, anely the black pods frae th
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
and being part of em being a broom-nosed to those lizard cabals.(2020)
same oan voting paper with ma broom!(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
It's batterin broom, on page 6

1 matches

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